Jul 13, 2018
you're the friend who's kinda mysterious and absent but offers amazing & thoughtful advice to the protagonist while you smoke & console them on the curb at night.
mysterious and absent? you flatter me ♥
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you're the friend who's kinda mysterious and absent but offers amazing & thoughtful advice to the protagonist while you smoke & console them on the curb at night.
mysterious and absent? you flatter me ♥
fmk: sebastian flyte, charles ryder, julia flyte.
this is a cursed question so thanks for that but i guess I gotta go with fuck charles, marry sebastian (platonically) and unfortunately kill julia :( unless we do the fuck-marry-kiss version of this game in which case julia’s getting a smoochin’
you're the patron saint of gothic & gay fiction. Of academia & mythology.
lmao i LOVE this, exactly what I always wanted :’)
what would I be patron saint of?
how do sebastian and charles first kiss?? I need to know that they do
It should happen over their summer alone together at Brideshead, because that’s when they’re happiest, but subconsciously neither man wants to do anything to threaten that happiness so they don’t even let themselves think about how they feel. Instead it happens later, once they’re feeling older than they are and Sebastian has started drinking too much, the world slowly taking its toll on him.
Their weeks of being watched and controlled by Mr Samgrass at Oxford and Sebastian’s mother at home have made them both glaringly aware of how much they miss each other’s company, despite the fact that Sebastian so willingly isolates himself these days. Of course they’re drunk when it happens, because Sebastian is rarely ever sober now, and on this night Charles is too tired to stop himself from joining his friend. They’re sitting together on the rim of the fountain on the grounds of Brideshead, where they had once shared many happier bottles of champagne on warm summer nights. It’s colder now, and they’re close enough for the fabric of their evening suits to brush each time they move. Sebastian is quiet, looking out across the grounds and caught up in his own thoughts.
Charles tries to distract him with idle talk and jokes, but he can see that his friend is hurting too deeply for him to reach. So he raises his hand and touches Sebastian’s fingers, softly, making Sebastian look up at him. Perhaps it is the alcohol, or his desperate need to brighten the shadows in Sebastian’s eyes, but Charles admits quietly (against his own nature): ‘This is where I’d bury it. The crock of gold you mentioned last summer. Here, in the grounds of Brideshead, where I’ve been happiest with you.’
He speaks before thinking, but knows that it was the absolute truth. Nothing in his life has ever made him as happy as his time with Sebastian, which makes it all the more painful to be drinking in such melancholy with him now. Neither says anything in the wake of his words, but after a moment Sebastian lifts his own hand to Charles’s face, brushes his cheekbone with the pad of his thumb, and then leans in to kiss him.
The kiss is soft and soundless. It lasts only a moment, enough time for Charles to feel Sebastian’s tear spill against his own cheek, before they’re sitting there with their eyes shut and foreheads resting together. Neither says anything in response. They just stay that way for several silent moments, each heart breaking with the recognition of the love they share.
Eventually they move apart, turning their faces up to the cold night air, and continue to sit and drink in silence.
if not for tonight, I could have gone my whole life without actively thirsting for Katie McGrath. You have changed my life tonight, thank you.
you’re very welcome. now it’s time for you to go and watch the dracula tv series in which katie mcgrath played lesbian lucy westenra because it will change your life
top 10 movies, top five books.
I can’t remember all the movies I saw but I’ll include ones made in other years but which I first saw in 2017
movies:
dunkirk (2017)
regeneration (1992)
lion (2016)
god’s own country (2017)
hidden figures (2016)
it (2017)/it (1990)
moonlight (2016)
the woman in black (2012)
big eden (2000)
all quiet on the western front (1930)
books (this is so hard why would you only give me 5!!):
monstress by lysley tenorio
days without end by sebastian barry
zami by audre lorde
the bloody chamber & other stories by angela carter
regeneration by pat barker
ask me unconventional/random “TOP 3/5/10″ end of the year lists
hey ana! I have come to love many a period lgbt movie, so I was wondering which are your favourites/any recs (esp if there are any you feel underrated). thanks!!
ahhh my favourite genre, historical & gay. these are my faves films, including some short miniseries
another country (1984)
maurice (1987)
the handmaiden (2016)
brokeback mountain (2005)regeneration (1997)
carol (2015)
a single man (2009)
bright young things (2003) (only minor lgbt character but great film)
the history boys (2006)
the night watch (2011)
fingersmith (2005) (2-part miniseries)
tipping the velvet (2002) (3-part miniseries)
the imitation game (2014)
cloud atlas (2012) (only partially period but I adore it)
wilde (1997)
the normal heart (2014)
pride (2014)
christopher and his kind (2011)
brideshead revisited (1981) (ok I know it’s not short but... how can I not include my favourite gay period drama of all time?)
fun fact: my laptop background is Saint Jerome by Caravaggio
That’s a gorgeous painting! My desktop background is a photograph of a tent in the wilderness beneath a starry night sky.